The 2012 Tarzan webcomic (retitled The New Adventures of Tarzan in 2013) by Roy Thomas, Tom Grindberg, and Benito Gallego has (finally) been scheduled to be collected in a hardcover book.In 2012 Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc. began to produce new Tarzan adventures as a webcomic by Roy Thomas and Tom Grindberg in a Sunday half-page […]
Dean Mullaney has announced that beginning in 2022 The Library of American Comics publishing imprint will primarily be in partnership with Clover Press going forward. The Library of American Comics founder and Creative Director Dean Mullaney announced that beginning in 2022 the primary home for LOAC and its sister imprint EuroComics will be Clover Press, […]
We ran an obituary for cartoonist Jerry Palen last week. But… Many people knew him as a fellow rancher, others through his iconic characters Elmo and Flo in his syndicated comic strip “Stampede,” the most widely syndicated cartoon in both the U.S. and Canada. Still others will remember Jerry Palen as the sculptor, artist and […]
For more than a quarter century, political cartoonist Jesse Springer has parodied and highlighted the uniqueness that is Oregon. His work has appeared in many regional newspapers across the state. Springer’s latest book, “Only in Oregon” is a compilation of several hundred cartoons taking on everything from climate change to COVID-19 to gerrymandering. Jesse Springer […]
New Yorker cartoonist Hilary Fitgerald Campbell is far too young to have a full-blown biography, so this Press Democrat profile will suffice.When Campbell was a kid, a sketch of Charles Schulz’s Snoopy hung in the hallway of her Sonoma home, a gift from Schulz to her mother. Campbell’s grandfather, the late Daniel Vaughan, was […]
Milton Caniff’s Terry and the Pirates comic strip has been collected in a number of formats – from Big Little Books to complete collections. But now comes the last word for Terry and the Pirates in book form. The Library of American Comics and Clover Press are proud to publish Terry and the Pirates: The […]
Bill Waterson Extremely Rare Teaching With Calvin And Hobbes Book (Playground Publishing, 1993). Those hoping to find a copy of Teaching With Calvin And Hobbes in the wild are usually advised to stop their search right now — supposedly, only eight libraries in the world have copies, and three of those are in North Dakota, […]
Usually any book missed in the monthly Hey Kids! Comics! checklist would wait to be noted in the following month’s entry, but this one is too important (and deserves separate documentation anyway).PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED A Memoir By Edward Sorel The book from Penguin Random House is now available! Alongside more than 172 of his drawings, cartoons, […]
Jon Adams and Ellis Rosen are cartoonists and illustrators who separately have contributed to The New Yorker, MAD, McSweeney’s and many other outlets. Together they’ve teamed up to edit the new book Send Help!: A Collection of Marooned Cartoons. More than just a collection of comics, it includes a forward by Emma Allen, an afterward […]
Tom Gauld comicBelow are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for November 2021 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. American Comics: A History Pearls Awaits the Tide Graphic Witness (second edition, expanded) Rubes Twisted Pop Culture Rube Goldberg and His Amazing Machines (review) Comics and the Origins […]
The University Press of Mississippi has all their books on sale! Here are a few of them: Over 150 comics related titles all on sale for $20.22. Get ’em while they last.
Not long after I posted this issue The AFRO posted an item about Hambone’s Meditations.I’m putting that notice up top for those who have already read this entry. Readers of The Commercial Dispatch and dozens of other Southern newspapers in the early 20th Century were greeted often, sometimes daily, sometimes on the front […]
Famed illustrator Jerry Pinkney has passed away. Jerry Pinkney December 22, 1939 – October 21, 2021 From NPR: The celebrated illustrator Jerry Pinkney has died. According to his long-time agent Sheldon Fogelman, Pinkney suffered a heart attack today; he was 81. Pinkney was a legend in the world of children’s publishing. He won a […]
Joe Dator puts a book together. © Joe DatorWhat do you wish you had known before making a book? I wish I’d known even one single thing about book publishing. It was a massive learning experience, and I started from scratch. For one thing, I found out that what goes in the book is […]
“What is it like to work at a small-market local newspaper in the United States?”Earlier this month the Columbia School of Journalism’s TOW Center in association with the Columbia Journalism Review published the results of a survey of small local newspapers. The observations in this report are based on an online survey conducted between Tuesday, […]